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| Why do most lure makers paint a cisco colored lure blue,when a tulibee is actually bluish backed and a cisco is a pinkish backed?Atleast this is what I read in a book and I have never actually seen either one
Steve Warner |
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| I as well have been wondering about this since I fish a lot of cisco based lakes. Is it simply a marketing scheme being that blue might catch the eye better than a tan or rose? Is it because blue shows up better in deeper water? I'd like to know the reasoning behind this. I have never seen a cisco that was blue or had blue in it. When seen from a distance they appear to be a really light tan color with a darker stripe down the center of the back.
Travis Kopke |
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| Cisco, the answer lies w/in a small plastic ball in a trinket dispenser in a little eatery in Frenchburg Ky...unfortunately we ran out of quarters![;)] I think you had it right; blue shows up deeper I think. The Manns Plus baits have a "blue mackerel" pattern that is popular here, and I have yet to catch a "blue" mackerel other than the ones that were "sad" at being caught. Jason Long I think has an article on his research site! [:sun:] |
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| Damn it!! I knew that stupid little broken ball with the missing trinket would come back to haunt me. |
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| I still think about that sometimes + crack up...typical of how the weekend went huh? Out of all the prizes in that glass globe + we spend our last 2 quarters + end up getting a cracked lid + empty container...at least the food was decent + we made it back to the lodge![;)] |
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| Tulibee or not tulibee, that is the question. Yes I concur; blue is DA view once under the hue. I learned that from smarty-pants too.[8)] |
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| That is a good question. I'm guessing here... but I'd guess the blue back originated from either the fact that blue retains its color at the greatest depth (especially in clear CISCO water)... making it a "brighter" bait to fish when probing the depths where cisco are often found. My second guess would be that they used blue before the discovery of IRRIDESCENT paint. Cisco have lots of irridescence in them (blue, green, gold, pink) and perhaps blue was the closest thing to matching that???? Three dimensional pigments are not cheap either, so even after the discovery of such paints... they are very expensive. So perhaps today going with blue is the most economical???
My personal experience with cisco is that in some lakes they are so silvery that they look like shimmering mirrors with a black back (I love chrome or glitter in these lakes). In other lakes they are a dull brown on the back with an off white side or belly (Tennessee Shad works good in these lakes). Blue, however, seems to work in BOTH lakes. Explain that one [:halo:] |
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| I WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SPAWN OF THE TULLIBEE IN SEPT OR OCT. I THINK IF I CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT THAT EXACT TIME I CAN CATCH A POS STATE RECORD ON MILLACS AFTER DARK ! ANY INFO WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. THANKS JOE |
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